Bu last month he reinstated the pom-pom twirlers after a fan backlash and they were hailed the club’s “lucky charm” after a surprise win.

She also helped draft a letter encouraging victims to invest in useless carbon credits and even used a stolen credit card to splurge on shopping trips and spent a whopping £517 on a London lunch.

Batchelor told cops she was aware of the fraud but claimed she had told her boyfriend to stop when she was arrested.

She tearfully told DC Rebecca Jackson: “When I started seeing him I just got suspicious of what he did.”

And when Batchelor asked him he said “he rings people and sells them stuff that didn’t exist”.

Ben-Sghaier previously admitted cold calling pensioners and pocketing more than £200,000 from nine victims with his brother Amin, 27.

His brother, Bilal, 22, and an ex girlfriend, Cathreen Welch, 23, are also on trial for profiting from the sick scam. They deny the charges.

Batchelor, arrested with the others in January last year, told cops she started dating Anis a year earlier and claimed she grew suspicious of his dealings and that he later admitted he was defrauding people out of their money.

She also told officers that she had allowed her ex to use her bank account to receive payments as she believed he did not have one of his own, the court heard.

Welch admitted to police that when she went out with Anis she allowed him access to her accounts so he could pay the rent on their flat but denied knowing anything about a fraud.